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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
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"Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality."
Society

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
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"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
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"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
Hollywood

"In Indian Country, he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning-and more will."
Philosophy

"When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel."
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"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."
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